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Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism
by Terje ØstebøDrawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.
Muslim Secular Democracy: Voices from Within
by Lily Zubaidah RahimThe book offers a nuanced and innovative analyses of the emergence of an inclusive secular democratic state paradigm which incorporates the sacred within the framework of secular democracy in the Muslim World.
Muslims and the New Information and Communication Technologies: Notes from an Emerging and Infinite Field (Muslims in Global Societies Series #7)
by Thomas Hoffmann and Göran LarssonThis volume deals with the so-called new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interrelationship with Muslims and the interpretation of Islam. This volume taps into what has been labelled Media Studies 2.0, which has been characterized by an intensified focus on everyday meanings and ‘lay’ users – in contrast to earlier emphases on experts or self-acclaimed experts. This lay adoption of ICT and the subsequent digital ‘literacy’ is not least noticeable among Muslim communities. According to some global estimates, one in ten internet users is a Muslim. This volume offers an ethnography of ICT in Muslim communities. The contributors to this volume also demonstrate a new kind of moderation with regard to more sweeping and avant-gardistic claims, which have characterized the study of ICT previously. This moderation has been combined with a keen attention to the empirical material but also deliberations on new quantitative and qualitative approaches to ICT, Muslims and Islam, for instance the digital challenges and changes wrought on the Qur’an, Islam’s sacred scripture. As such this volume will also be relevant for people interested in the study of ICT and the blooming field of digital humanities. Scholars of Islam and the Islamic world have always be engaged and entangled in their object of study. The developments within ICT have also affected how scholars take part in and influence public Islamic and academic discussions. This complicated issue provides basis for a number of meta-reflexive studies in this volume. It will be essential for students and scholars within Islamic studies but will also be of interest for anthropologists, sociologists and others with a humanistic interest in ICT, religion and Islam.
Mütter in Führungspositionen: Die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf (Soziale Analysen und Interventionen #2)
by Verena SchillyDie Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf – ein vieldiskutiertes Thema, immer noch besonders für Frauen. Sie wollen berufstätig sein und werden als Fachkräfte dringend gebraucht. Mit Blick auf den demografischen Wandel sollen sie jedoch auch ihre Mutterrolle nicht vergessen. Als Lösung des Vereinbarkeitsproblems wird politisch der Ausbau der Kinderbetreuungsplätze proklamiert. Doch was wollen die Frauen selbst?Diese qualitative Studie mit Müttern in Führungspositionen ermöglicht einen breiteren Blick auf die Thematik– weg von der derzeit einseitig geführten Debatte um einzelne Rahmenbedingungen. Es wird nicht nur die Frage nach der Organisation des Alltags gestellt, vielmehr wird nach Ursachen und Einflussfaktoren auf den Wunsch nach Kindern und Karriere gefragt. Die Studie macht die Vielschichtigkeit des Themas deutlich und zeigt, dass der Ausbau der Betreuungsmöglichkeiten alleine nicht alle Hindernisse beseitigen kann. Vielmehr treten Themen wie die gesellschaftliche Toleranz verschiedener Lebensmodelle sowie das Bedürfnis nach Anerkennung in den Vordergrund. Es wird deutlich wie Zwänge der Leistungsgesellschaft verhindern, dass die Frauen eine freie Entscheidung für ihr persönliches Lebensmodell treffen.Dieses Buch ist sowohl für die Wissenschaft als auch in der Praxis eine Anregung, die Problematik der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf in ihrer gesamten Komplexität zu betrachten.
Myth of Universal Human Rights: Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way
by David N. StamosIn this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the belief in human rights are critically examined, including defenses of nonconsensus concepts. In the final chapter Stamos develops a method of naturalized normative ethics, which he then applies to topics routinely dealt with in terms of human rights. In all of this Stamos hopes to show that there is a better way of dealing with matters of ethics and justice, a way that involves applying the whole of our evolved moral being, rather than only parts of it, and that is fiction-free.
Myth of Universal Human Rights: Its Origin, History, and Explanation, Along with a More Humane Way
by David N. StamosIn this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the belief in human rights are critically examined, including defenses of nonconsensus concepts. In the final chapter Stamos develops a method of naturalized normative ethics, which he then applies to topics routinely dealt with in terms of human rights. In all of this Stamos hopes to show that there is a better way of dealing with matters of ethics and justice, a way that involves applying the whole of our evolved moral being, rather than only parts of it, and that is fiction-free.
Myth, Representation, and Identity: An Ethnography of Memory in Lipsi, Greece
by M. PapachristophorouLipsi forms a modern construction that has disconnected from its past. Recently, the community has formed a collective identity reconstructed from fragments of collective memory. This book is an ethnographic account of the mythology proposed by the community and examines how history and collective memory tightly interconnect.
Nachhaltigkeit in der Wirtschaftskommunikation (Europäische Kulturen in der Wirtschaftskommunikation #24)
by Martin Nielsen Iris Rittenhofer Marianne Grove Ditlevsen Sophie Esmann Andersen Irene PollachNachhaltigkeit ist ein Schlüsselbegriff der heutigen Gesellschaft. Er durchzieht unternehmerische, soziale, umweltbezogene, ökonomische, politische und viele andere Diskurse. Die AutorInnen beleuchten Schnittstellen von Nachhaltigkeit und Kommunikation. Aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Perspektiven und Disziplinen wie der Linguistik, Wirtschafts- und Unternehmenskommunikation, Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Soziologie oder des Marketing werden Prinzipien, Phänomene und Fallbeispiele von Nachhaltigkeit in der Kommunikation dargestellt und diskutiert.
The Nation State and Beyond: Governing Globalization Processes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context)
by Isabella Löhr and Roland WenzlhuemerThe history of globalization is anything but a no-frills affair that moves smoothly along a clear-cut, unidirectional path of development, eventually leading to seamless global integration. Accordingly, scholarship in the social sciences has increasingly argued against equating the history of globalization processes and transcultural entanglements with the master narrative of the gradual homogenization of the world. Examining the shifting patterns of global connections has, therefore, become the main challenge for all those who seek to understand the past, the present and the future of modern societies. And this challenge includes finding a place for the nation state. The studies presented here argue that looking at the nation state from the perspective of global entanglements opens the door for its interpretation as a dynamic and multi-layered structure that takes part in globalization processes and plays various and at times even contradictory roles at the same time.
Nation-States and Nationalisms: Organization, Ideology and Solidarity (Political Sociology)
by Sinisa MalesevicDespite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and resilient ideological discourse and the nation-state the only legitimate mode of territorial rule. This innovative and concise book provides an in-depth analysis of the processes involved in the emergence, formation, expansion and transformation of nation-states and nationalisms as they are understood today. Sinisa Malesevic examines the historical predecessors of nation-states (from hunting and gathering bands, through city-states, to modernizing empires) and explores the historical rise of organizational and ideological powers that eventually gave birth to the modern nation-state. The book also investigates the ways in which nationalist ideologies were able to envelop the microcosm of family, kin, residential and friendship networks. Other important topics covered along the way include: the relationships between nationalism and violence; the routine character of nationalist experience; and the impacts of globalization and religious revivals on the transformation of nationalisms and nation-states. This insightful analysis of nationalisms and nation-states through time and space will appeal to scholars and students in sociology, politics, history, anthropology, international relations and geography.
A Nation with the Soul of a Church: How Christian Proclamation Has Shaped American History
by O. C. Jr. James DunklyFrom the very beginning, religious leaders have influenced the course of American history—sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. This book examines those Christian sermons that set or changed the course of the nation.What did 18th-century preacher Jonathan Edwards really mean to convey with is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon? What Southern minister did most to encourage secession of the Southern states from the Union? And why does Martin Luther King Jr. need to be remembered for more than his "I Have a Dream" speech? This book examines the sermons that have shaped American history from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the Obama administration. It provides extended biographical treatments of those who preached them, thereby providing readers with the historical context of the sermon, an explanation of what made these orations so effective, and an understanding of the role of religion in American history.Author O.C. Edwards Jr. supplies insightful and interesting coverage of Christian preachers and sermons that will engage anyone interested in America's religious or social history. The book addresses the religious philosophies and speeches of individuals such as William Sloan Coffin Jr., Russell Conwell, Charles Coughlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Billy Graham, Anne Hutchinson, Martin Luther King Jr., Patricia Merchant, John Winthrop, and Jeremiah Wright.
A Nation with the Soul of a Church: How Christian Proclamation Has Shaped American History
by O. C. Jr. James DunklyFrom the very beginning, religious leaders have influenced the course of American history—sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. This book examines those Christian sermons that set or changed the course of the nation.What did 18th-century preacher Jonathan Edwards really mean to convey with is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon? What Southern minister did most to encourage secession of the Southern states from the Union? And why does Martin Luther King Jr. need to be remembered for more than his "I Have a Dream" speech? This book examines the sermons that have shaped American history from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the Obama administration. It provides extended biographical treatments of those who preached them, thereby providing readers with the historical context of the sermon, an explanation of what made these orations so effective, and an understanding of the role of religion in American history.Author O.C. Edwards Jr. supplies insightful and interesting coverage of Christian preachers and sermons that will engage anyone interested in America's religious or social history. The book addresses the religious philosophies and speeches of individuals such as William Sloan Coffin Jr., Russell Conwell, Charles Coughlin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Billy Graham, Anne Hutchinson, Martin Luther King Jr., Patricia Merchant, John Winthrop, and Jeremiah Wright.
National 4 & 5 Modern Studies: Social issues in the United Kingdom (PDF)
by Paul Creaney Alison Elliott Frank CooneyExam Board: SQA Level: National 4 & 5 Subject: History First Teaching: September 2013 First Exam: June 2014 Endorsed by SQA The complete resource, developed by top subject experts for the latest syllabus outlines. - Ensure understanding with questions for each topic throughout - Cover the new content areas and specified skills - Engage students with a full-colour, accessible format This is an up-to-date resources for the National 4 & 5 syllabus outlines offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority for examination from 2014 onwards. Social Issues in the United Kingdom ensures that students are fully briefed on the relevant topic areas for exam preparation and analyses: - the causes and impact of social inequalities on individuals and communities - the causes and impacts of crime - government responses to these issues
National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents
by Gerard Bouchard Gérard BouchardNational myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who today has not heard about the erosion of common values or the undermining of social cohesion? But to efficiently address this issue, do we know enough about the nature and role of myths in modern and postmodern societies? Against this background, National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents relies on a sample of nations from around the world and seeks to highlight the functioning of national myths, both as representations that make sense of a collectivity, and as socially grounded tools used in a web of power relations. The collection draws together contributions from international experts to examine the present state of national myths, and their fate in today’s rapidly-changing society. Can – or must – nations do without the sort of overarching symbolic configurations that national myths provide? If so, how to rethink the fabrics and the future of our societies? This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in sociology, national, identity and memory studies, myths, shared beliefs, or collective imaginaries.
National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents
by Gérard BouchardNational myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who today has not heard about the erosion of common values or the undermining of social cohesion? But to efficiently address this issue, do we know enough about the nature and role of myths in modern and postmodern societies? Against this background, National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents relies on a sample of nations from around the world and seeks to highlight the functioning of national myths, both as representations that make sense of a collectivity, and as socially grounded tools used in a web of power relations. The collection draws together contributions from international experts to examine the present state of national myths, and their fate in today’s rapidly-changing society. Can – or must – nations do without the sort of overarching symbolic configurations that national myths provide? If so, how to rethink the fabrics and the future of our societies? This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in sociology, national, identity and memory studies, myths, shared beliefs, or collective imaginaries.
Nationalism and Multiple Modernities: Europe and Beyond (Identities and Modernities in Europe)
by Atsuko IchijoThis book is the first to apply the theory of multiple modernities to the study of nationalism, examining the modernity of nationalism through three major case-studies: Anglo-British, Finnish and Japanese.
Native American Communities on Health and Disability: A Borderland Dialogues
by L. Lovern C. LocustThis volume examines concepts of disability and wellness in Native American communities, prominently featuring the life's work of Dr. Carol Locust. Authors Locust and Lovern confront the difficulties of translating not only words but also entire concepts between Western and Indigenous cultures, and by increasing the cultural competency of those unfamiliar with Native American ways of being are able to bring readers from both cultures into a more equal dialogue. The three sections contained herein focus on intercultural translation; dialogues with Native American community members; and finally a discussion of being in the world gently as caregivers.
Natural Resource Use and Global Change: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Social Ecology
by K. BruckmeierBuilding on recent developments in social ecology, this book advances a new critical theory of society and nature, exploring social metabolism and global resource flows in contemporary society. Barriers to global sustainability are identified and conditions for transforming industrial economies towards new sustainable resource use are described.
Naturalization Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multi-Nation Societies in International Perspective (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series)
by Dina KiwanThis book examines constructions of 'national' citizenship in the context of perceived internal division, including devolution, multiculturalism, ethno-religious conflict, post-conflict and refugees, drawing on a wide range of countries such as Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK, Ukraine, Canada and Palestinians in Lebanon.
Natürlich mehr leisten!: Von Sportlern lernen - als Führungskraft erfolgreich sein, gesund bleiben
by Jana Leidenfrost Andreas SachsErfolgreiche Menschen rufen jederzeit, punktgenau und in vielfältigen Situationen ihre beste Leistung ab. Doch um die Leistungsfähigkeit auch langfristig zu bewahren und dabei gesund zu bleiben, bedarf es einer guten Balance aus Leistung und Regeneration. In der westlichen, stark aufgabenorientierten Wirtschaftswelt ist diese Erkenntnis bisher wenig umgesetzt – entsprechend nehmen Burnout u.a. psychische Krisen stetig zu. Im Spitzensport ist sie dagegen seit langem ein Erfolgsfaktor: Denn es gehört zu unseren ganz menschlichen Potenzialen, auf natürliche Weise „mehr“ zu leisten und dabei auf allen Ebenen fit zu bleiben – vorausgesetzt, der „Trainingsplan“ stimmt! Die Autoren dieses Buches wissen das aus eigener Erfahrung, denn sie sind sowohl als Leistungssportler als auch Unternehmensberater erfolgreich. Hier geben sie neue Impulse für eine erfolgreiche Führungsarbeit und ein positives Leistungsverständnis, indem sie Erfolgsfaktoren, Trainingsmethoden und positive Bilder aus dem Sport auf den Wirtschaftsbereich übertragen. – Dabei entsteht eine neue Sicht auf Themen wie Motivation, innerer Antrieb, Vision und Zielbildung, Flow oder Teamgeist.Im Detail vermittelt dieses Buch Haltungen, Techniken und Trainingspläne für das Management der eigenen Energie sowie der Team- und Organisationsperformance. Letztlich liefert es damit einen Beitrag zur aktuellen Burnout-Diskussion und eröffnet neue Möglichkeiten der Potenzialentfaltung. Ein Buch für alle, die auf gesunde Weise Leistung bringen, Mitarbeiter entsprechend fördern und ihre Organisationen nachhaltig gestalten möchten.
Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research (Critical Youth Studies)
by Kitty Te Riele Rachel BrooksNegotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines. Unlike literature that tends to discuss youth research at an abstracted and exalted level, this volume aims to make the basic principles and guidelines of youth research more ‘real.’ By openly discussing actual challenges that researchers have experienced in the course of conducting their fieldwork or interpreting their findings, this collection provides the most authentic overview of the ethics of youth research available. A careful selection of chapters addresses a range of ethical challenges particularly relevant to contemporary youth researchers. Each chapter identifies an ethical issue that the author has personally experienced in his or her youth research, explains why this was a challenge or dilemma, outlines how the researcher responded to the challenge, and provides advice and draws out broader implications for youth researchers. The chapters are organized around three themes that capture core ethical challenges: power and agency, protection and harm prevention, and trust and respect. The result is a collection that is a rigorous and valuable resource to those embarking on research with young people for the first time as well as supporting the resolution of ethical challenges by more experienced researchers.
Negotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research (Critical Youth Studies)
by Kitty Te Riele Rachel BrooksNegotiating Ethical Challenges in Youth Research brings together contributors from across the world to explore real-life ethical dilemmas faced by researchers working with young people in a range of social science disciplines. Unlike literature that tends to discuss youth research at an abstracted and exalted level, this volume aims to make the basic principles and guidelines of youth research more ‘real.’ By openly discussing actual challenges that researchers have experienced in the course of conducting their fieldwork or interpreting their findings, this collection provides the most authentic overview of the ethics of youth research available. A careful selection of chapters addresses a range of ethical challenges particularly relevant to contemporary youth researchers. Each chapter identifies an ethical issue that the author has personally experienced in his or her youth research, explains why this was a challenge or dilemma, outlines how the researcher responded to the challenge, and provides advice and draws out broader implications for youth researchers. The chapters are organized around three themes that capture core ethical challenges: power and agency, protection and harm prevention, and trust and respect. The result is a collection that is a rigorous and valuable resource to those embarking on research with young people for the first time as well as supporting the resolution of ethical challenges by more experienced researchers.
Negotiating Europe: EU Promotion of Europeanness since the 1950s (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series)
by O. CalligaroThe book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates that the promotion of Europeanness at the EU level does not constitute an overarching identity policy that imposes a homogenous interpretation of European identity. Rather, it is a process of negotiation in which various entrepreneurs of Europeanness within and outside the EU institutions invent and communicate representations of Europe. Both the negotiation and the multilayered representations of Europe that it produces are investigated through three case studies: the academia and the historians, European heritage, and the iconography of the euro.
Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere (Gender and Politics)
by Birte Siim and Monika MokreThe book analyses intersections between gender and diversity through cross-national studies of European public spheres. The approach confronts research on European democracy and the public sphere with gender and diversity research and reflections about European equality and diversity issues are based on new research from a large-scale EU project.
Negotiating the Life Course: Stability and Change in Life Pathways (Life Course Research and Social Policies #1)
by Ann Evans and Janeen BaxterPathways through the life course have changed considerably in recent decades. Many of our assumptions about leaving home, starting new relationships and having children have been turned upside down. It is now almost as common to have children prior to marriage as afterwards, and certainly much more common to live together before marrying than to marry without first living together. Women are more likely to remain in the labour force after having children and many families struggle with problems of work-family balance at some stage in their lives, particularly when they have young children. But how much has really changed? Is there really more diversity in how individuals transition through these life course stages, or just variations at the margin with most people following a standard work and family life course? This volume makes use of rich longitudinal data from a unique Australian project to examine these issues. Drawing on broader theories of social change and demographic transitions in an international context, each chapter provides a detailed empirical assessment of the ways in which Australian adults negotiate their work and family lives. In doing so, the volume provides important insight into the ways in which recent demographic, social and economic changes both challenge and reproduce gender divisions.